'The Lion' all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wo...
C. S. LEWIS Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
C. S. LEWIS History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of p...
C. S. LEWIS Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
C. S. LEWIS The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent ca...
C. S. LEWIS It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
C. S. LEWIS Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't m...
C. S. LEWIS Ascension If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no mea...
C. S. LEWIS Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865 Is not the popular...
C. S. LEWIS The vice I am talking about is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian mo...
C. S. LEWIS We need at times, some of us at most times, that Charity from others which, being Love Himself in th...
C. S. LEWIS It is hard enough, even with the best will in the world, to be just. It is hard, under the pressure ...
C. S. LEWIS Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099 It is a poor thing to strike our colours to Go...
C. S. LEWIS If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of...
C. S. LEWIS Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist Continuing a short series on authenticity: There, right i...
C. S. LEWIS Feast of Joseph of Nazareth The vice I am talking about is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue o...
C. S. LEWIS How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
C. S. LEWIS Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.
C. S. LEWIS The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
C. S. LEWIS I wish they would remember that the charge to Peter was "Feed my sheep", not "Try experiments on my ...
C. S. LEWIS Can we believe that God ever really modifies His action in response to the suggestions of men? For i...
C. S. LEWIS Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Wri...
C. S. LEWIS It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.
C. S. LEWIS It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good te...
C. S. LEWIS Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C. S. LEWIS The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, ...
C. S. LEWIS Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead ...
C. S. LEWIS Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
C. S. LEWIS Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot...
C. S. LEWIS Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with u...
C. S. LEWIS Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.
C. S. LEWIS I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
C. S. LEWIS Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies t...
C. S. LEWIS We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long e...
C. S. LEWIS The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
C. S. LEWIS Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don&#...
C. S. LEWIS Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward s...
C. S. LEWIS Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoo...
C. S. LEWIS Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
C. S. LEWIS If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get eit...
C. S. LEWIS Joy is the serious business of Heaven.
C. S. LEWIS We are what we believe we are.
C. S. LEWIS An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
C. S. LEWIS Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
C. S. LEWIS Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C. S. LEWIS When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you'd been the only man in the...
C. S. LEWIS We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and wa...
C. S. LEWIS Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C. S. LEWIS Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one o...
C. S. LEWIS The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnin...
C. S. LEWIS If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precis...
C. S. LEWIS If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as...
C. S. LEWIS Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it ...
C. S. LEWIS It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to f...
C. S. LEWIS A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the...
C. S. LEWIS I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but becaus...
C. S. LEWIS Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, bu...
C. S. LEWIS Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things...
C. S. LEWIS Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
C. S. LEWIS Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a res...
C. S. LEWIS There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom G...
C. S. LEWIS Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C. S. LEWIS Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, a...
C. S. LEWIS If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explan...
C. S. LEWIS No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
C. S. LEWIS A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
C. S. LEWIS A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and...
C. S. LEWIS God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no su...
C. S. LEWIS If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in...
C. S. LEWIS I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear...
C. S. LEWIS You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
C. S. LEWIS Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are affl...
C. S. LEWIS What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for var...
C. S. LEWIS Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlo...
C S LEWIS Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that ...
C. S. LEWIS This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet...
C. S. LEWIS 'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time w...
C. S. LEWIS I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sord...
C. S. LEWIS We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.
C. S. LEWIS Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconception...
C. S. LEWIS ...that people often say about Him: "I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't...
C. S. LEWIS Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey "people." People say different things: so do ...
C. S. LEWIS Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes...
C. S. LEWIS Courage is not simply one of the virtues , but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C. S. LEWIS Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense ...
C. S. LEWIS A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun...
C. S. LEWIS Try to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what ...
C. S. LEWIS There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those t...
C. S. LEWIS The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succee...
C. S. LEWIS The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he doe...
C. S. LEWIS Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressi...
C. S. LEWIS It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
C. S. LEWIS It is hard to have patience with people who say "There is no death" or "Death doesn't matter." There...
C. S. LEWIS Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was th...
C. S. LEWIS Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
C. S. LEWIS Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if y...
C. S. LEWIS Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'...
C. S. LEWIS Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
C. S. LEWIS No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a ma...
C. S. LEWIS If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wo...
C. S. LEWIS Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our liv...
C. S. LEWIS With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.
C. S. LEWIS Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'v...
C. S. LEWIS Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there i...
C. S. LEWIS Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep t...
C. S. LEWIS Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole w...
C. S. LEWIS What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of...
C. S. LEWIS Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189 It is well to hav...
C. S. LEWIS Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Wri...
C. S. LEWIS Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833 We know that one school of psycholog...
C. S. LEWIS Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord The practical problem of Christian polit...
C. S. LEWIS Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Wri...
C. S. LEWIS A man's physical hunger does not prove that that man will get any bread; he may die of starvation on...
C. S. LEWIS Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066 The very activities for which we were created are, while we...
C. S. LEWIS We must not encourage in ourselves or others any tendency to work up a subjective state which, if we...
C. S. LEWIS Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist The Present is the point at which Time touches Eternity. ...
C. S. LEWIS Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380 Can we believe that God ever modifies His act...
C. S. LEWIS If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad be...
C. S. LEWIS THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE We are very shy nowadays of even mentioning Heaven. We ...
C. S. LEWIS Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915 In ...
C. S. LEWIS One mustn't make the Christian life into a punctilious system of law, like the Jewish, for two reaso...
C. S. LEWIS Those who talk of reading the Bible "as literature" sometimes mean, I think, reading it without atte...
C. S. LEWIS Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859 I am, indeed, far from agreeing with those who t...
C. S. LEWIS As sure as ever God puts his children in the furnace, he will be in the furnace with them. ... C...
C. S. LEWIS Easter Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbish...
C. S. LEWIS Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: I have called my material surroundings a stage set. In this ...
C. S. LEWIS Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writ...
C. S. LEWIS My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not now either arising from the repe...
C. S. LEWIS Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945 It may be possible for each of us to th...
C. S. LEWIS Men say, "How are we to act, what are we to teach our children, now that we are no longer Christians...
C. S. LEWIS The rejection as unhistorical of all passages which narrate miracles is sensible if we start by know...
C. S. LEWIS If we once accept the doctrine of the Incarnation, we must surely be very cautious in suggesting tha...
C. S. LEWIS Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170 A Christian and an unbelieving poe...
C. S. LEWIS C. S. Lewis Centennial Holding [the Way of Affirmation], we see that every created thing is, in i...
C. S. LEWIS Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writ...
C. S. LEWIS I have found (to my regret) that the degrees of shame and disgust which I actually feel at my own si...
C. S. LEWIS Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation We must not encourage in ourselves or others...
C. S. LEWIS Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Pri...
C. S. LEWIS Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349 I have often, on my knees...
C. S. LEWIS Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writ...
C. S. LEWIS When we propose to ignore in a great man's teaching those doctrines which it has in common with the ...
C. S. LEWIS I will attempt no historical or theological classification of [George] Macdonald's thought, partly b...
C. S. LEWIS Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566 An essential part of ...
C. S. LEWIS Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200 We must never speak to simple, ex...
C. S. LEWIS Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945 If the [Incarnation] ha...
C. S. LEWIS If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad be...
C. S. LEWIS In most parts of the Bible, everything is implicitly or explicitly introduced with "Thus saith the L...
C. S. LEWIS Don't imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call "humble" nowaday...
C. S. LEWIS Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945 The very strength and ...
C. S. LEWIS We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is...
C. S. LEWIS Every time you make a choice, you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses,...
C. S. LEWIS Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928 What mak...
C. S. LEWIS Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Wri...
C. S. LEWIS Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabet...
C. S. LEWIS Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642 Meanwhile, little people like you and me, if ...
C. S. LEWIS Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535 Continuing a short se...
C. S. LEWIS Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624 The [Christian] "doctrines" are translation...
C. S. LEWIS Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: The primary object of prayer is to know God better; we and o...
C. S. LEWIS Feast of the Conversion of Paul If I say to you that no one has time to finish, that the longest h...
C. S. LEWIS Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859 To excuse what can really produce good excuses is...
C. S. LEWIS Easter Our imitation of God in this life -- that is, our willed imitation, as distinct from any l...
C. S. LEWIS Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
C. S. LEWIS Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressiv...
C. S. LEWIS I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
C. S. LEWIS The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
C. S. LEWIS What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other me...
C. S. LEWIS Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outsi...
C. S. LEWIS You want to know why there's a Texas Rangers? Well, here's the answer. You know how the six-...
S. C. GWYNNE This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a...
S. C. GWYNNE Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.
C. S. FORESTER They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service an...
C. S. FORESTER The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with...
C. S. FORESTER Novel writing wrecks homes.
C. S. FORESTER There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
C. S. FORESTER Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
C. S. FORESTER I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together l...
C. S. FORESTER I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes ...
C. S. FORESTER Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Ho...
C. S. FORESTER A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford...
C. S. FORESTER I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
C. S. FORESTER The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accor...
C. S. FORESTER When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Mus...
C. S. FORESTER With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her...
C. S. FORESTER There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along different lines.
C. S. FORESTER A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can alway...
C. S. FORESTER Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!
S. C. HALL There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.
C. S. ROBINSON What I am afraid of is the first thing I was ever aware of being afraid of and what I have told my d...
S. C. GWYNNE The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and...
C. S. FORESTER There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.
C S ROBINSON True love makes the imperfect to perfect .... otherwise love is not true.....
BASIL C S We can fight with our destiny ...but one day you should be ready to admit it , surrender to it ........
BASIL C S The Destiny of a good man is to live for self actualization
BASIL C S If Love is not powerful , what else is .......!!!
BASIL C S Get out, you blazing ass! / Gabble o' the goose. Don't bugaboo-baby me!
C. S. CALVERLEY Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.
C. S. CALVERLEY The boy, a bare-legged beggarly son of a gun.
C. S. CALVERLEY I must mention again it was gorgeous weather, / Rhymes are so scarce in this world of ours.
C. S. CALVERLEY Life is with such all beer and skittles; / They are not difficult to please / About their victuals.
C. S. CALVERLEY Meaning, however, is no great matter.
C. S. CALVERLEY